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“‘Unless one is initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, all his devotional activities are useless. A person who is not properly initiated can descend again into the animal species.’”

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 7, 2018 at 18:13

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According to the Vaiṣṇava regulative principles, one must be initiated as a brāhmaṇa. The Hari-bhakti-vilāsa (2.6) quotes the following injunction from the Viṣṇu-yāmala:

adīkṣitasya vāmorukṛtaṁ sarvaṁ nirarthakam
paśu-yonim avāpnotidīkṣā-virahito janaḥ


“‘Unless one is initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, all his devotional activities are useless. A person who is not properly initiated can descend again into the animal species.’”

Hari-bhakti-vilāsa (2.10) further quotes:
ato guruṁ praṇamyaivaṁsarva-svaṁ vinivedya ca
gṛhṇīyād vaiṣṇavaṁ mantraṁdīkṣā-pūrvaṁ vidhānataḥ


“‘It is the duty of every human being to surrender to a bona fide spiritual master. Giving him everything — body, mind and intelligence — one must take Vaiṣṇava initiation from him.’”

"One should not proudly think that one can understand the transcendental loving service of the Lord simply by reading books... One must accept a Vaisnava guru (adau gurv-asrayam), and then by questions and answers one should gradually

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Jaya of Eating, Sriman Mahesh JC, A.Bh.S.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on June 22, 2015 at 5:00

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Many arguments are made in this respect, that as long as we don't cut the animal we do not incur sin.

In the Mahabharata, there is a verse which states that one who sells the animal, one who buys the animal, one cuts the animal,one who cooks the animal, one who serves the animal and one who eats the animal, all are bound equally by the chain of Karma.

But leaving the spiritual aspect of it, anatomically, the human body is not structured to eat animal flesh. Studies have shown the length of the intestine of a tiger is 4 times the length of it's torso so when it eats flesh the toxins in the flesh are not kept for long in the intestine and are expelled at the earliest. Also the concentration of acid secreted in the stomach is so strong that it burns the bacteria in the flesh. While in the cow, the length of the intestine is 12 times it's torso and so the food takes longer time to be expelled from the body. We have seen that the incidence of the Mad Cow disease (bovine spongi

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Animal Farm in Review, by B. Radha Govinda Swami

Posted by Welcome on February 21, 2012 at 18:00

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9468735871?profile=originalHare Krsna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept my fallen obeisances.
Please note the following which can be found here (my bolding for emphasis)

"At the time of his departure from this mortal world in 1977, Srila Prabhupada requested Jayapataka Swami to take up the responsibility of being an initiating spiritual master...Since then Jayapataka Swami has been executing these responsibilities."

Hmmm: Now it's been turned (twisted) into "Srila Prabhupada requested..."

Though it may be understood as "a mundane book," (re)reading George Orwell's "Animal Farm," may be considered by some devotees. Though a very short book, George Orwell through the allegory gives a very good description of what's happened within today's ISKCON; how Srila Prabhupada's intended ISKCON has become its present-day deviated transformation consisting from the changes in the philosophy and its practices, to ISKCON's GBC "evernew" - or, "everfresh," the "fresh" meaning "nasty" - laws, the beating a
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